Global Issues & ODA

Natural disasters are a serious threat to human security and obstacle to poverty eradication and sustainable development. Japan has provided international cooperation in the area of disaster risk reduction with its knowledge and expertise acquired through experiences of various natural disasters.

• Side Event of the G20 Development Working Group "Prospects on Achieving Disaster Risk Reduction Agenda" (February 19, 2019)
• Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (March 2015)
• World Ministerial Conference on Disaster Reduction in Tohoku (July 2012)